The Israeli spy agency Mossad recently foiled planned or attempted Iranian attacks on Israeli diplomatic missions in Europe and elsewhere, according to a report released on Monday.
The report by Israel’s Channel 12 said the names of the countries where attacks were prevented remain censored, but cooperation with those nations were instrumental in foiling the attacks.
No further details were available, and no sources were named.
In 2012, Iran and its Lebanese proxy, the terror group Hezbollah, allegedly attempted to carry out a number of attacks against Israeli diplomatic missions in India, Georgia, Thailand, and elsewhere.
The Channel 12 report also said that an attack on the Natanz nuclear facility in Iran, which has been credited to Israel, has set back Tehran’s uranium enrichment programme by two years, citing Western intelligence estimates. However, a report by Israel’s Channel 13 on Sunday claimed the attack only set back the programme by a single year.
Hezbollah has a history of international terror attacks, including the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires, killing 85.
There have been a number of similar Hezbollah terror incidents and plots across Europe in recent years. Iran and Hezbollah-linked terrorists were in 2015 caught by MI5 and the Metropolitan Police stockpiling tonnes of explosive materials in North West London in a secret bomb factory.
In July 2012, five Israeli tourists and a driver were killed when a suicide bomb targeted a bus in the Bulgarian city of Burgas.
